Echo Telephone Piece-REVISION

Water Piece

Tunafish Sandwich Piece

One-Minute Sculpture Photograph

ECHO TELEPHONE PIECE-Yoko Ono

Get a telephone that only echoes back your voice.

Call every day and talk about many things.

1964 spring

pg 40

My favorite project this semester of Multimedia Content Creation was when we worked on the use of Premiere to make videos, these past few weeks. Although it was our most recent project, I enjoyed it the most due to the collection of skills I had collected throughout the semester, and the general process of its creation, as well as what I was able to encapsulate in my video. Since it was a video, and we were given almost full creative maneuverability, I was able to loop the thoughts behind my video back to my “Artist’s Journey” theme for an easy topic.

The skills I learned from the tutorials and projects will come in useful if I ever need to use the various Adobe programs again. I am not overly sure if this will happen, if not for classes, because of my general dislike of Adobe in its user face and prices.

I hope to continue forward and become a 3D modeler for various purposes and my career. Though I am not exactly certain how the skills I have gained will help in that goal, I see there might be potential for those certain skills coming to light for one reason or another in due time.

Of course, considering my career goal, a program that would teach 3D modeling or animation would have been ideal, but as far as I know, Adobe does not have such a program. Other than that unorthodox request, I do not have any interest in expanding upon what we could have learned.

Though, I did not do much outside research to support my projects, I did however, often search for certain functions of the programs which I could not find myself or find in the tutorials, despite their necessity for finishing the projects. I believe the reason the tutorials could not properly show me where these functions were because of the differences between versions and myself being a visual learner with most of the tutorials being majorly word-based. In simpler terms, I would occasionally need to look up where a certain function of the program was or how to use it.

Though I do not have much in the ways of other thoughts, I want to take the time to thank you for the class and hope you enjoy the Holidays.

For my Final Video Story, I decided to advance upon my concept of “Personal Art Journey” again through the use of what I had already used and what I could also incorporate to further the viewer’s understanding of what I had personally accomplished to provide an instance of my actual art.

My opening shot is on the Fine Arts Center itself, with numerous students walking past and towards the building. I initially had no real idea of what I wanted to make of my Art Journey for this project, so I hoped taking long shots of the place where I currently did art would help resolve my problem. In the end, it did. After I took the Fine Arts Center video, and a few hours passed, I also took the Studio video actually showing some of my art and others’ art as well. From these two videos I began piecing together what I wanted my project to be about: The Place and Process.

From that concept, I formed the idea to also take photos of my sketch books and the daily ‘observations’ I have written and drawn in there. As part of my Sculpture class, it is mandatory we take daily observations, so incorporating the photos of my books is a simple way to implement them without drawing to much focus to my class. The photos I took demonstrate the beginning of the process for my art, where I need to think my ideas through before I can actually begin putting together the piece. They also show a few different ways an idea can be thought through; the first being a variety of projects without any connection or instructions, the second showing the true process of changing something from plaster to metal, and the third, mainly illustrations of one object(a ufo) with many different types of styles to consider. All three pictures come together to show just how flexible art can be with how you approach it as a medium.

I also, from my feedback, chose to use more photos of my own personal works to finish off the video. Additionally, I added some Copyright free music to the background to give the video just a little audio to keep the viewer’s attention.

For my Draft Video Story, I decided to piece something together to follow up with my ongoing “Personal Art Journey” theme of things. This project’s attention is mainly focused on the Fine Arts Center, where most of my artistic creativity is spent nowadays, rather than on my tablet.

My opening shot is on the Fine Arts Center itself, with numerous students walking past and towards the building. I initially had no real idea of what I wanted to make of my Art Journey for this project, so I hoped taking long shots of the place where I currently did art would help resolve my problem. In the end, it did. After I took the Fine Arts Center video, and a few hours passed, I also took the Studio video actually showing some of my art and others’ art as well. From these two videos I began piecing together what I wanted my project to be about: The Place and Process.

From that concept, I formed the idea to also take photos of my sketch books and the daily ‘observations’ I have written and drawn in there. As part of my Sculpture class, it is mandatory we take daily observations, so incorporating the photos of my books is a simple way to implement them without drawing to much focus to my class. The photos I took demonstrate the beginning of the process for my art, where I need to think my ideas through before I can actually begin putting together the piece. They also show a few different ways an idea can be thought through; the first being a variety of projects without any connection or instructions, the second showing the true process of changing something from plaster to metal, and the third, mainly illustrations of one object(a ufo) with many different types of styles to consider. All three pictures come together to show just how flexible art can be with how you approach it as a medium.

Art Tour

Lowers down to view of fine arts building

Promotional talk begins

-Explain what the building is

Use building video here

Shift in topic slightly

Swap angle of building

Finish talking about building and fine arts

Sequence of walking through doors and downstairs into basement

Begin speaking about the art done recently and its impact on my art career

Show video of art projects

“we hope you come visit soon”

To finalize my Audio Story into a complete work, I will admittedly say, I have not changed much of my draft compared to the drastic changes I have shown in previous projects. For what I have done though, I believe it has improved the Final Audio Story through the slight details. These changes are not too noticeable, seeing as they come from the Effects Tab majorly, and are primarily focused on enhancing the audio throughout the file.

The simple effects I mentioned are a result of what I learned to do to improve my audio from the feedback section of the project earlier this week. First, to reduce the overall background noise and breathing from my central part of the audio, my self-interview, I elected to use the Effects Tab, Noise Reduction and Restoration, then Adaptive Noise Reduction. I believe that by doing this, my audio now holds a cleaner, less full of background noise presence, and should be easier to listen to without distraction.

Another effect I chose to add to my Final Audio Story was DeNoise. Though I hold a lack of understanding still as I learn how to utilize all of Audition’s tools, I saw DeNoise right beside Adaptive Noise Reduction in the Noise Reduction and Restoration subsection of the Effects Tab, and thought it sounded like it would also be able to clear up the minor noises of the stairwell I recorded in, as well as parts of the noise of my breath.

I also chose to eliminate some of the sound on the atmospheric files either side of the interview. I did this through the clicking and dragging of the yellow bar on each file, so as to let them both fade into the audio, and out of the audio. Through the use of these techniques, I believe I was able to finalize my draft into something much more refined and presentable.

For my audio draft project, I wanted to express how life and art are deeply connected through a variety of themes, though I was only able to show those thoughts clearly for one such topic, how life is remembered. I wanted to use my personal perspective to show the different ways people could potentially want to be remembered and what some may expect to come from their lives.

I began the Audio Draft with the background noise of me clicking my mouse as I used my laptop in hopes to illustrate a point, and at the same time not. The point, if taken, is how most things now are begun with a click, or some variation of it. Whether a tap or click or otherwise, the meaning is all the same and beginning the Draft with clicking holds the power to symbolize a small commentary on how the modern age can associate a small noise as the start of something much greater and more complicated. This point could also be ignored and replaced with the mindset the clicks were just a representation of background noise of someone doing an unknown something. Much like many art pieces, its up to personal interpretation.

The talking section of the Audio Draft is simplistic as far as meaning goes, at least for me. All I wanted to accomplish, was what I mentioned before, create an understanding for the listener to have where all people have their own stories they want to have told and hope to become. I also wanted to show my view on this concept through the depiction of my own hopes and story to be told and the unsureness of it all.

Behind the talking section I placed the background noise of me scribbling with pencil on paper. The sole purpose I can find for my choice behind this placement is I had another background noise I wanted to use, and the pencil drawing could be interpreted as the predecessor to my digital drawings. Normally, if I have a detailed project I want to work on, I would draw it out in pencil first, then take a photo and trace over it in my digital program.

Finally, the third segment of the Audio Draft which I finished with was the sound of my tablet pen on my digital drawing tablet. This portion was made to finalize the project with the sounds of progress being made on an art project.